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140 pointsadamwiggins10 comments

Whatever minor factual flaws the blog post had, Heroku is on the right track. Deployment is a pain, and putting together a language-agnostic way of solving it is much needed. Not that I'm happy with that way involving someone else's servers, but fundamentally, too much effort has been wasted on language-specific products. I applaud Heroku's efforts and hope the general focus on building pan-language frameworks continues.

Haskell could also fit easily into that table, especially since people already [1] have Haskell projects running on Heroku's Cedar platform.

Dependency management: Cabal, Hackage. REPL: GHCi. Embedded webservers: Snap, Warp, Happstack Server. Web frameworks: Snap, Yesod, Happstack.

[1]: http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/07/haskell-on-heroku

TreeFrog is listed as a web framework for C, but it's really a web framework for C++. They may seem similar, but they're really two totally different languages. The mixup of C and C++ is really not a good thing.

>Programming-centric news aggregators such as Hacker News and the programming subreddit give curious developers exposure to buzz about new languages.

Minor, but the coding subreddit is another good one: http://www.reddit.com/r/coding

what's the difference between the two?

The coding subreddit is largely a reaction to the loss of focus and meme-infestation of the programming subreddit. It seemed to also be more theory-heavy at the time, but looking at it now it appears to be striking a better balance.

I noticed C#/.NET didn't make the list.

I don't think that their infrastructure runs on Windows. You may perhaps get Mono one day...

Ugh, python is a terrible REPL, give me ipython any day.

Yes, I know this is irrelevant to the article's point.

I love where is Heroku is headed. Screw "Heroku for X"… Heroku is "Heroku for X".

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